Owner's Manual

Overview 19

Overview

The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a hot-pluggable systems

management hardware and software solution designed to provide the

following functions for Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis system:

• Remote management capabilities

•Power control

• Cooling control

The CMC, which has its own microprocessor and memory, is powered by the

modular chassis into which it is plugged. To get started with the CMC, see

"Installing and Setting Up the CMC" on page 31.

The CMC provides multiple systems management functions for Blade

servers. Power and thermal management are the primary functions of the

CMC.

• Enclosure-level real-time automatic power and thermal management.

– CMC monitors system power requirements and supports the optional

Dynamic Power Supply Engagement mode. This enables CMC to

enable or set power supplies in standby, dynamically depending on

load and redundancy requirements to improve power efficiency.

– CMC reports real-time power consumption, which includes logging

high and low points with a time stamp.

– CMC supports setting an optional enclosure Maximum Power Limit,

which either alerts or takes actions, such as throttling server modules

and/or preventing the power up of new blades to keep the enclosure

under the defined maximum power limit.

– CMC monitors and automatically controls cooling of fans based on

actual ambient and internal temperature measurements.

– CMC provides comprehensive enclosure inventory and status/error

reporting.